"We want our audiences to rip, mix and share the BBC," said the BBC's Paula Le Dieu, who was on stage at ETech about an hour after Lawrence Lessig, She said the BBC would finally open its Creative Archive this year, with a test version that could be in beta for 18 months or so. The content will not be protected by a DRM (digital rights management) system, and, she added, "we are hoping our audience is going to become our distribution partner with peer-to-peer".
One not-so-little problem was that all this was "UK only". How that restriction might be applied, Le Dieu did not say.... However, it seems she's leaving the Creative Archive to join the Creative Commons operation, so she probably won't have to worry about it for much longer.
